Raiders coach/dead man walking Lane Kiffin gave his usual Monday press conference, which as I understand it was mostly him trying to find new different ways to say, “It’s out of my control, I can’t worry about it, and there’s nothing I can do but keep doing my job” when reporters asked him about his impending firing.

Afterwards, Raiders official John Herrera blew up at San Jose Mercury News columnist Tim Kawakami. Kawakami tells the whole story at his blog, but here’s the meat of it:

You’re a liar,” Herrera shouted. “You built a whole column on a lie…” […]

And then I heard Kawakami say, “I’d love to own part of this franchise,” meaning if a Raider official slugged him he could sue.

All this because Herrera denies Raiders officials circulated an ESPN story critical of Kiffin, while Kawakami alleges that Herrera himself was the one who passed it out to the media. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” Oh, SNAP! You see what I did there? I called Herrera a woman! That’s a burn.

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I am shocked that the Raiders would be in turmoil. This is unprecedented.

09.23.08 at 11:11 am

Enrico Pallazzo

John Herrera blew up at San Jose Mercury News columnist Tim Kawakami.

Blew up like Hiroshima???

09.23.08 at 11:16 am

Porkpie

Al Davis is in total control – of his bladder.

09.23.08 at 11:27 am

ognihs

i don’t like the way you’re squintin’ at me kawakami!

09.23.08 at 11:34 am

smurphette

Shakespeare and Ufford: dick joke pioneers of the 16th and 21st centuries.

09.23.08 at 12:30 pm

Bacon rules!

Al Davis seems to like having fat guys with long gray hair on his coaching staff. Given that he’s no longer coherent and spends his days eating applesauce through a straw, I bet he thinks they’re all wizards with super powers.

09.23.08 at 3:13 pm

OGWiseman

It really makes me happy that you put the ‘methinks’ on the right end of your Shakespeare quote. One of the more common quotation mistakes in English, yet in the world of online, bile-spewing blogs, you are the King of Strange, Old Grammar. It makes me so happy, in fact, that I signed up on your site just to post this comment. Rule well, my King.

PS – Aren’t you a former jarhead, writer-guy? I didn’t think they allowed that faggit Shakespeare shit in the corps.